Zinc treatment for diarrhoea reduces child deaths [Full text]

	Coping style doesn't affect outcome in people with cancer [Full text]

	Nepalese women need educating about care of newborns [Full text]

	Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of cardiac arrest [Full text]

	Therapeutic window for anticoagulation is narrow [Full text]

	Mental health interventions may help patients with somatic conditions [Full text]

	Risks to longevity begin early in life [Full text]

Editorials

	Take back your mink, take back your pearls
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:1047-1048, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1047 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatments for sleep problems in elderly people
	Paul Montgomery
	BMJ  2002;325:1049, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1049 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Primary prevention of sudden cardiac death using implantable cardioverter defibrillators
	Janet M McComb, A John Camm
	BMJ  2002;325:1050-1051, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1050 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bisphosphonates as adjuvant treatment for breast cancer
	Julie R Gralow
	BMJ  2002;325:1051-1052, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1051 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Milburn refuses to renegotiate consultants' contract
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;325:1053, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1053 [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors open talks with Scottish Executive after voting "yes"
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2002;325:1053, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1053/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;325:1054, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1054 [Full text] [PDF]

	Heart failure falling in women but not in men
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;325:1054, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1054/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Police find no evidence of forgery by accused paediatricians
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:1054, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1054/b [Full text] [PDF]

	US doctors and public disagree over mandatory reporting of errors
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;325:1055, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1055 [Full text] [PDF]

	Inquiry into handling of CJD alert welcomed
	Mark Hunter
	BMJ  2002;325:1055, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1055/a [Full text] [PDF]

	White couple can keep mixed race twins after IVF blunder
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:1055, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1055/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients are more satisfied with care from doctors of same race
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;325:1057, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1057/c [Full text] [PDF]

	EU clamps down on reimportation of cheap drugs meant for Africa
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;325:1058, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1058 [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA steps up call for ban on smoking in public places
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2002;325:1058, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1058/a [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Scientists unveil the next step in the human genome project
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;325:1056, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1056 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Climate change conference ends in recrimination
	Sanjay Kumar
	BMJ  2002;325:1056, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1056/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New exhibition combines art and science
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;325:1056, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1056/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patients should be sent copies of doctors’ letters about them
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;325:1056, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1056/c [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Mental health staff are anxious after murder of psychiatrist
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2002;325:1056, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1056/d [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Transplanted organs from women more likely to be rejected
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:1057, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1057 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Children in the Gaza Strip suffer malnutrition
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;325:1057, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1057/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	NICE recommends greater use of thrombolytics in acute myocardial infarction
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;325:1057, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1057/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Canadians need to spend $C5bn more a year on health care
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;325:1058, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1058/b [Full text]

	Italy cracks down on its drugs bill
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2002;325:1058, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1058/c [Full text]

	GMC guidelines will double ENT consultation times
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:1058, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1058/d [Full text]

	US government cannot revoke licences of doctors who recommend marijuana
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:1058, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1058/e [Full text]

	Bus passes could be causing contact dermatitis
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:1058, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1058/f [Full text]

Papers

	Effect of zinc supplementation started during diarrhoea on morbidity and mortality in Bangladeshi children: community randomised trial
	Abdullah H Baqui, Robert E Black, Shams El Arifeen, Mohammad Yunus, Joysnamoy Chakraborty, Saifuddin Ahmed, J Patrick Vaughan
	BMJ  2002;325:1059, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1059 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Science commentary: What does zinc do?
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2002;325:1062, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1062 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cross sectional, community based study of care of newborn infants in Nepal
	David Osrin, Kirti M Tumbahangphe, Dej Shrestha, Natasha Mesko, Bhim P Shrestha, Madan K Manandhar, Hilary Standing, Dharma S Manandhar, Anthony M de L Costello
	BMJ  2002;325:1063, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1063 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Influence of psychological coping on survival and recurrence in people with cancer: systematic review
	Mark Petticrew, Ruth Bell, Duncan Hunter
	BMJ  2002;325:1066, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1066 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiac arrest and ventricular arrhythmia in patients taking antipsychotic drugs: cohort study using administrative data
	Sean Hennessy, Warren B Bilker, Jill S Knauss, David J Margolis, Stephen E Kimmel, Robert F Reynolds, Dale B Glasser, Mary F Morrison, Brian L Strom
	BMJ  2002;325:1070, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1070 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Oral anticoagulation and risk of death: a medical record linkage study
	Anders Odén, Martin Fahlén
	BMJ  2002;325:1073-1075, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1073 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality in adults aged 26-54 years related to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood: post war birth cohort study
	Diana Kuh, Rebecca Hardy, Claudia Langenberg, Marcus Richards, Michael E J Wadsworth
	BMJ  2002;325:1076-1080, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1076 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Observational study of 353 applications to London multicentre research ethics committee 1997-2000
	Malcolm Boyce
	BMJ  2002;325:1081, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1081 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of queries]

Primary care

	Systematic review of mental health interventions for patients with common somatic symptoms: can research evidence from secondary care be extrapolated to primary care?
	Rosalind Raine, Andy Haines, Tom Sensky, Andrew Hutchings, Kirsten Larkin, Nick Black
	BMJ  2002;325:1082, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1082 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Information in practice

	Why general practitioners use computers and hospital doctors do notPart 1: incentives
	Tim Benson
	BMJ  2002;325:1086-1089, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1086 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why general practitioners use computers and hospital doctors do notPart 2: scalability
	Tim Benson
	BMJ  2002;325:1090-1093, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1090 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Hotspots in climate change and human health
	Jonathan A Patz, R Sari Kovats
	BMJ  2002;325:1094-1098, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1094 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra table]

	Lesson of the week: Haemophilus influenzae type b epiglottitis as a cause of acute upper airways obstruction in children
	K Tanner, G Fitzsimmons, E D Carrol, T J Flood, J E Clark
	BMJ  2002;325:1099-1100, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1099 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Antithrombotic therapy in peripheral vascular disease
	Andrew J Makin, Stanley H Silverman, Gregory Y H Lip
	BMJ  2002;325:1101-1104, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1101 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Strategic, at a pan-Auchendreich level
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2002;325:1121, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1121/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Families need more information about postmortem examinations
	BMJ  2002;325:1121, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1121 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Effects of war: moral knowledge, revenge, reconciliation, and medicalised concepts of "recovery"
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  2002;325:1105-1107, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1105 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	WHO in 2002: Have the latest reforms reversed WHO's decline?
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2002;325:1107-1112, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1107 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Suturing v conservative management of hand lacerations
	Beryl A De Souza, Mohammed Shibu, Graham Moir, Nigel Carver, Roderick Dunn, Stuart Watson, Alistair J Irvine, James Quinn, Karen Sellers
	BMJ  2002;325:1113, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1113 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk factor thresholds
	Michael A Soljak, Malcolm E Kendrick, Steven M Laitner, Malcolm Law, Nicholas J Wald
	BMJ  2002;325:1114, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1114 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Most patients depressed by cancer do not need drugs
	Ulrich S Schuler
	BMJ  2002;325:1115, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1115 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of infertility: one stop clinic may offer solution
	Malini Sharma, Alex Taylor, Amina Al Khouri, Natasha Goumenou, Panos Tsirkas, Peter Scott, Adam Magos
	BMJ  2002;325:1116, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1116 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Collaboration is key to preventing syphilis
	Kevin A Fenton, Lorraine Doherty
	BMJ  2002;325:1116, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1116/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are inactivation procedures for blood products good or bad?
	Gregor Caspari
	BMJ  2002;325:1116, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1116/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Weber's test demystified
	Chima E Mbubaegbu, Gary Kroukamp
	BMJ  2002;325:1117, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1117 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	James Ivory
	Alex Brown
	BMJ  2002;325:1118, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1118 [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Malcolm Downie McLean
	Christopher Bayliss
	BMJ  2002;325:1118, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1118/a [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Douglas Rodger
	Keith Fergusson, Norman Doidge
	BMJ  2002;325:1118, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1118/b [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Michael Edwin Rope
	M J Oldroyd
	BMJ  2002;325:1118, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1118/c [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Stevenson
	Peter Hambling
	BMJ  2002;325:1118, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1118/d [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Eileen Mary Whapham
	E M Whapham, D E M Whapham
	BMJ  2002;325:1118, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1118/e [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;325:1122, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1122 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM: Arthroscopy is not effective for the treatment of osteoarthritis
	BMJ  2002;325, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.0/h [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Only Ten Commandments
	BMJ  2002;325:1066, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1066/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Less than a hair's breadth away
	BMJ  2002;325:1070, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1070/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A crucial examination
	Daren C Y Teoh
	BMJ  2002;325:1075, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1075 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2002;325:1076, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1076/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Forever young
	BMJ  2002;325:1082, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1082/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Persian advice
	BMJ  2002;325:1090, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1090/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The final temptation
	BMJ  2002;325:1094, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1094/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Strangers in the night
	Prasad Palimar
	BMJ  2002;325:1104, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1104 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Family history
	Simon P Stephenson
	BMJ  2002;325:1112, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1112 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	UK senior doctors' career destinations, job satisfaction, and future intentions: questionnaire survey
	BMJ  2002;325:1089, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1089 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary aflatoxin exposure and impaired growth in young children from Benin and Togo: cross sectional study
	BMJ  2002;325:1089, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1089/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mental health campaigners cancel march because of fears of backlash
	BMJ  2002;325:1089, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1089/b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine
	Irvine Loudon
	BMJ  2002;325:1119, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1119/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

FILM

	Film: 28 Days Later
	Anna Ellis
	BMJ  2002;325:1119, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1119 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: The consultant contract
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2002;325:1120, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1120 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Think before condemning
	BMJ  2002;325, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.0/g [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Coping with cancer
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;325:1120, doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1120/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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